Chapter 22: Is it you who betrayed me? Bronya!
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If Elysia knew what the white-haired fluffball was thinking, she would definitely cry out in injustice.
With her personality, how could she possibly be willing to destroy such a delicate flower?
The reason she had to do that was also out of desperation. To prevent Bronya from going berserk, the safest way was to make that child lose consciousness, but they currently had no assistance, and even if they sought help from the chat group friends, there was no solution.
Everyone was decent people. If you wanted healing medicine, that was no problem, but if you wanted sleeping drugs, what did you take everyone for?
In the resource-scarce situation, they could only perform physical hypnosis on Bronya.
But someone had to do it, right?
Raiden Mei, she couldn’t bear to do it, and she was inexperienced and couldn’t control the force properly.
After all, swords and sticks were different things. Even if she had inherited the techniques, it wouldn’t help.
Then there was Kiana.
This one was even more outrageous.
As a white-haired fluffball of the Kaslana family, she had tremendous strength and only knew how to send others flying. What, you said to be gentler? Sorry, she might not be able to hold back.
Jiang Qiao was one of the victims.
And when the target of physical hypnosis was Bronya, it became even more terrifying.
Having learned from Elysia what Cocolia was planning to do, Kiana was extremely angry at that woman she had never met.
Under the influence of hatred by association, she also looked unfavorably upon Bronya, who was in cahoots with Cocolia.
Add to that the naturally conflicting enemy attributes between the white-haired fluffball and the duck.
Who would dare let a Kaslana stacked with blood rage do such a thing?
That would definitely be a case of “try it and die.”
One strike down, even if it didn’t smash the duck’s head, it would probably turn the duck into an idiot.
In this situation, Elysia could only volunteer to take on the hypnosis task.
With her extremely skilled control over power, Bronya barely managed to escape with at most a mild concussion.
But this also meant they couldn’t get anything from Bronya, who had been knocked into shutdown mode.
“If father was still here, it would be good.”
Raiden Mei sighed.
Who would be most familiar with ME Corp? Who could compare to ME Corp’s president, Raiden Ryoma?
However, if Raiden Ryoma was still around, how could that female fox Cocolia run wild in Nagazora City?
“Can’t we go ask him?”
Kiana’s thought process was very direct.
If Jiang Qiao were here, his answer would definitely be:
“Impossible! Absolutely not!”
Not to mention that after capturing Bronya, Elysia and the others’ action time became extremely tight, with no time to find Raiden Ryoma.
Even before that, trying to find Raiden Ryoma was a very dangerous thing.
Cocolia had finally caught Raiden Ryoma’s weakness and sent him to prison. Do you think that female fox would leave Raiden Ryoma alone?
Jiang Qiao could be certain that Raiden Ryoma’s surroundings were definitely under Cocolia’s surveillance at all times, and he probably wasn’t even in Nagazora City anymore.
Trying to seek his help was basically a trap, and the unfortunate Ryoma could barely protect himself.
Jiang Qiao estimated that if it weren’t for trying to avoid drawing attention from the moderate faction of Anti-Entropy as much as possible, given Cocolia’s ruthless nature, Raiden Ryoma would probably have been shot multiple times in the back shortly after entering prison, suspected of suicide out of guilt.
The identity of an Anti-Entropy member couldn’t protect him at all in front of Cocolia.
Laughably, she could even desperately scheme against those precious daughters of hers, so what was a mere organizational companion?
Elysia sighed:
“There’s no choice, we can only attack head-on. Kiana, you go attract the firepower, and we’ll split up to search for passages leading to the underground base.”
“Stay in contact, let’s begin the operation!”
— Bang!
Using explosives obtained from chat group friends, in the darkness of night, with rising flames and loud explosions, the main entrance of the ME Corp building was directly blown open.
This naturally caught the attention of the underground base.
“Lady Cocolia, enemies have invaded the upper level!”
The subordinate responsible for surveillance came to Cocolia’s side, and the blonde beautiful woman in a green military uniform, Cocolia, who was leaning back in her chair, slowly opened her eyes, her crimson-purple pupils carrying a hint of coldness.
“Who is it?”
This question was quickly answered by the content from the central monitor displayed on the large screen.
The white-haired, blue-eyed Kaslana — Kiana Kaslana.
The suspicious unidentified male that Bronya mentioned — Elysia wearing Jiang Qiao’s appearance.
And the core of her plan, the 3rd Herrscher test subject — Raiden Mei.
The figures of those three were active under the monitors, but soon, one by one, the surveillance screens turned to static.
— They were deliberately destroying the surveillance!
“The enemies seem to be searching for something on the upper level.”
The subordinate’s report made Cocolia’s brow furrow instantly, her crimson-purple eyes filled with uncertainty and disbelief.
“They… could they be coming for me?”
No, she shouldn’t use “could they,” but rather “definitely.”
Elysia and the others’ movement trajectory undoubtedly showed intent toward the underground base.
But how was this possible?
This cunning chief executive of the Anti-Entropy radical faction fell into deep confusion and bewilderment.
“How could I possibly have been exposed?”
Cocolia muttered to herself, unable to figure out what was going on.
She was confident that she should have hidden well, and besides, the plan had barely progressed halfway, there shouldn’t be any possibility of exposure.
Unless there was a traitor!
The moment this thought flashed through Cocolia’s mind, she immediately recalled her adopted daughter who had been in conflict with Kiana earlier, and hurriedly asked loudly:
“Bronya, where is Bronya! Where is Bronya!”
“Well…”
Seeing her subordinate’s troubled expression, Cocolia instantly flew into a rage:
“What’s going on? Didn’t I tell you to watch Bronya?!”
“Lady Cocolia, you previously said to give Miss Bronya some privacy and told us not to constantly watch Miss Bronya.”
The subordinate felt somewhat wronged. You were the one who said to monitor constantly, you were also the one who said not to monitor, and now you’re getting angry, serving such a capricious master was really too difficult.
Cocolia also instantly realized this and felt somewhat embarrassed, but quickly remembering the current situation, she pressed on:
“Where is she now!”
She now strongly suspected that Bronya had betrayed her.
Otherwise, how could the test subject have directly attacked the ME building?
“Miss Bronya’s current location appears to be at the test subject’s home, and from her condition, she seems to be unconscious.”
“At home?”
Cocolia didn’t notice the latter half of the sentence, but focused entirely on the first half about being “at home.”
Could it be that you betrayed me! My dear daughter!
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Bronya: Unconscious, unable to complain.